About Us

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James Hutton Limited was founded in 2015. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the James Hutton Institute and is responsible for commercialising the intellectual property and expertise of the Institute.

Making an impact through science, James Hutton Limited draws on the scientific expertise, intellectual property, facilities & resources of the James Hutton Institute to provide research and consultancy services for the agrifood, oil and gas, environmental, water and related sectors.

James Hutton Limited offers analytical and research services from one of the largest specialist laboratories in the UK, led by world leading scientists.

An extensive portfolio of more than 40 plant varieties is available through James Hutton Limited, many of which are protected by Plant Variety Rights and available for licensing worldwide.

The profits generated by James Hutton Limited are gift aided back to the Institute and reinvested in research.

James Hutton (1726 – 1797)

was a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, an eighteenth century golden age of intellectual and scientific achievements centred on Edinburgh. He is internationally regarded as the founder of modern geology and one of the first scientists to describe the Earth as a living system. His thinking on natural selection influenced Charles Darwin in developing his theory of evolution.

This modern take on his portrait mirrors our modern take on work he started.